Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Under the Equality Act 2010 we must ensure we do not unlawfully discriminate in our service delivery and make reasonable adjustments for people with disabilities where necessary. We are constantly working to improve the accessibility and usability of our site.

Non compliance with the accessibility regulations

headings: some headings don’t cascade inside some features on some web pages

link text: some pages contain the same or limited link text going to different pages, some link text referring to the same page requires consistency

text: while the website has been developed using plain English there is a need to ensure consistency across the site including use of consistent and accessible dates and times and remove characters that are difficult to be read

images: some images have duplicate alternative text or have no alternative text

tables: generated table code is not HTML5 compliant

PDF’s : we need to check that pdf’s we use now are accessible and convert pdf’s to text where possible.

We intend to resolve these issues by July 2020 in order that we are fully compliant by September 2020.

Disproportionate burden

Documents that are supplied to us by other organisations will not be edited to make them accessible

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and documents: many of our older PDF documents don’t meet accessibility standards and may not be marked up so they’re accessible to a screen reader. The accessibility regulations don’t require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services. Where PDFs were published prior to that date we make a statement to that effect at the bottom of each page where such PDF’s are located.

How we test the site

We re-assess a website or system for accessibility whenever it undergoes a major modification.

Most page content is checked every time it is updated.

Review

We will keep this accessibility statement under review and will amend it when necessary to ensure our commitment to bringing our website in line with the appropriate legislation.